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Without an oversized calendar tacked to their kitchen wall,-Fern Reiss and her family could never keep track of all the meetings, appointments, home-schooling lessons, and activities that fill their busy days. "I’m not sure they make a calendar large enough for us," says Ms. Reiss of Newton, Mass., explaining that her life revolves around "two companies, three children, a spouse, a lot of community involvement, a social life l the kids’ social life, and volunteering in a soup kitchen every week." "Everybody we know is leading a frenetic life," she adds. ’"Ours is frenetic, too, but we’re spending the bulk of our time with our kids. Even though we’re having a crazy life, we’re having it in the right way.
Although extreme busyness is hardly a new phenomenon, the subject is getting renewed attention from researchers. "A good life has to do with life having a direction, life havi
A. crazy and meaningless.
B. tedious but orderly.
C. hasty and messy.
D. busy but sensible.

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Without an oversized calendar tacked to their kitchen wall,-Fern Reiss and her family could never keep track of all the meetings, appointments, home-schooling lessons, and activities that fill their busy days. "I’m not sure they make a calendar large enough for us," says Ms. Reiss of Newton, Mass., explaining that her life revolves around "two companies, three children, a spouse, a lot of community involvement, a social life l the kids’ social life, and volunteering in a soup kitchen every week." "Everybody we know is leading a frenetic life," she adds. ’"Ours is frenetic, too, but we’re spending the bulk of our time with our kids. Even though we’re having a crazy life, we’re having it in the right way.
Although extreme busyness is hardly a new phenomenon, the subject is getting renewed attention from researchers. "A good life has to do with life having a direction, life havi
A. enthusiasm for diligence.
B. chaos in their schedule.
C. desire to achieve too much.
D. hardships in daily life.

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Well, no gain without pain, they say. But what about pain without gain.’ Everywhere you go in America, you hear tales of corporate revival. What is harder to establish is whether the productivity revolution that businessmen assume they are presiding over is for real.
The official statistics are mildly discouraging. They show that, .if you lump manufacturing and services together, productivity has grown on average by 1.2% since 1987. That is somewhat faster than the average during the previous decade. And since 1991, productivity has in creased by about 2% a year, which are more than twice the 1978 - 1987 averages. The trouble is that part of the recent acceleration is due to the usual rebound that occurs at the point in a business cycle, and so is not conclusive evidence of a revival in the underlying trend. There is, as Robert Rubin, the treasury secretary, says, a "disjunction" between the mass of business anecdote that points to a
A. 1%
B. 2%
C. 1.5%
D. 4%